Comments on: Transmedia storytelling, new journalism & digital curation

By: Open Source Culturematics Producing Open Data #startofplay « Perfect Path

Open Source Culturematics Producing Open Data #startofplay « Perfect Path — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 19:44:18 +0000

[...] is a development of the way I’ve been thinking for a while. And what I wrote yesterday about organising all this stuff is part of it [...]

By: Joan Smith aka @Clarendonmedia

Joan Smith aka @Clarendonmedia — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 10:57:21 +0000

I am in total agreement with you Lloyd about transmedia not just dipping into fictional universes. My background is in journalism so I’m more interested in the convergence of transmedia with real stories. That’s how you get real audience participation. I’m collaborating with Lisa on an exciting climate change project so we should all definitely have a chinwag!

By: Lloyd Davis

Lloyd Davis — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 17:43:51 +0000

Hi Lisa, thanks for this, perhaps we should talk next time you’re at #tuttle. Thanks for the reminder to read Convergence Culture, it’s been on my “must read” list for quite a while

By: Lisa Devaney

Lisa Devaney — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 16:58:54 +0000

Interesting that you are thinking about and writing about transmedia storytelling. I’d say the leading thinker in this is Henry Jenkins who wrote Convergence Culture, which you may want to check out. You are correct that it is mostly entertainment that is fulfilling transmedia efforts, but I think it is going beyond just that medium nowadays.

Since hearing about the Purefold entertainment project by Ag8 last year from the bTWEEN conference, I also became fascinated with what transmedia is exactly. Rightly or wrongly, I am describing myself as a transmediaist — because of how I’ve used multi-mediums to communicate stories over the years. The most famous story I told was that of out-of-work New Yorkers, following 9/11, for the WeWantWork.com campaign I co-founded and was spokesperson for, telling the story across online, broadcast and print media channels, around the world. There’s been other transmedia adventures I’ve gotten up to and am currently working on, so if you want to talk transmedia sometime, I’m happy to do so, along with my transmedia collaborator @ClarendonMedia.

By: Lloyd Davis

Lloyd Davis — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 14:41:45 +0000

Thanks Ben, all interesting stuff, come chat at Tuttle some time

By: Ben Mason

Ben Mason — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 16:11:51 +0000

Good points. ‘Open source’ in its loosest sense, can be applied to so much these days. It’s a useful philosophy to apply to anything when you want to consider a more modern version of it.

I’ve been enjoying how open all the Guardian live blogs are. I like seeing journalists make and then correct mistakes as stories develop.

Seeing a journalist apologise for believing that Israel was managing to block tweets on the #flotilla hashtag, only to be reprimanded by colleagues as a conspiracy theorist, was so refreshing.

And, although it’s mostly about fiction, here’s a post of mine about digital storytelling and campfires:
http://101culture.com/how-to-tell-stories-in-the-digital-age